Mars may have been losing its water more than 4 billion years ago, oldest-known Martian meteorite suggests
An unassuming, brownish stone may be one of the most precious objects on Earth. The rare rock, called Teghaza 001, is a piece of ancient
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Mammal ancestors may have given live birth 90 million years earlier than we thought, rewriting evolutionary timelines
A dog-sized carnivore and mammal ancestor that lived around 236 million years ago seems to have given birth to live young, a new study suggests.
Pigs wearing heated diving suits and diapers reveal a better way to beat ‘the bends’
Deep-sea divers take careful measures to avoid “the bends,” a painful condition where gas bubbles form in divers’ blood and tissues when they ascend from
Memory may not work how we thought, study of mice in artificial hibernation finds
Long-term memories may not “stick” in the brain for the reasons we thought, a study of mice in artificial hibernation reveals. Instead of relying on
Saving old trees may protect people’s health more than planting new ones, study of Chicago neighborhoods finds
Losing mature trees from a neighborhood may be a matter of life and death, a new study suggests. The research, published Aug. 5 in the
Foodborne illnesses: Is the US really being hit harder this year?
Between outbreaks of explosive diarrhea leading to nationwide lettuce recalls and cases of Salmonella tied to eggs and jalapeños, foodborne diseases in the United States
The glue that binds a proton may be key to its identity
Gluons do more than hold protons together. They may also help define the proton’s identity through a quantum property called baryon number.
Stars’ plasma spurts may be blocked by magnetic fields
The sun frequently flings plasma into space, but sightings of such eruptions on other stars are rare. Magnetic fields could explain why.
Perseids Meteor Shower
The constellation Orion is framed by two Perseid meteors on Aug. 12, 2018, in Cedar Breaks National Monument, Utah.
‘They basically used these dried-up wells just to throw people in’: 43 skeletons found in Roman-era well may be evidence of deadly plague
BERLIN — Nearly four dozen skeletons recovered from a deep well in the Croatian city of Osijek may be the remains of people who perished
New AI technique helps robots complete tasks twice as fast by letting them ‘think ahead’
Scientists have engineered a new artificial intelligence (AI) system that cuts reaction delays in robots by over 10 times without using additional computing power. Many
James Webb telescope just spotted the oldest, closest pair of black holes in the early universe
Astronomers have discovered a close pair of actively feeding supermassive black holes, seen when the universe was just 1.3 billion years old. Collectively known as
Heat-trapping asteroid dust may have incinerated the dinosaurs within hours
Within minutes of impact, debris began heating Earth’s atmosphere. Fine dust trapped that heat, potentially killing the dinosaurs quickly.
How to see and photograph the partial lunar eclipse on August 27-28
Just over two weeks after the total solar eclipse on Aug. 12 comes an encore. On the night of Aug. 27–28, a very deep partial